Two black &. white illus. Düsseldorf: Galerie Schmela, 1966.

Scarce card for Arakawa’s show with Galeria Schmela in 1966. Fine. More

[6] leaves, printed on rectos only. 4to, blue color-printed wrappers, stapled. Utrecht: Utrechtse Kring, 1969.

Very rare Armando (1929-2018) exhibition catalogue, we find no example outside of the Netherlands. With text contributions by Carel Blotkamp, Hans Sleutelaar, and Henk Peeters. Begins with a list of the artist’s paintings and exhibitions.

In fine condition. More

Printed on one side. Card. Rome: Sperone & Fischer, 1973.

Announcement card for an Art & Language exhibition hosted at Gian Enzo Sperone and Konrad Fischer’s shared gallery in Rome. Near fine.

❧ Not in A. Minola, ed., Gian Enzo Sperone: Torino-Roma-New York, 35 anni di mostre tra Europa e America (2000), but a show by the collective in Torino is noted on 12 October. More

Unpaginated. Small 8vo, printed wrappers, staple-bound. Los Angeles: 1988.

Scarce bookseller catalogue, with an enormous selection of 1607 titles. All listings are priced. Fine. More

Unpaginated. Small 8vo, printed wrappers, staple-bound. Los Angeles: n.d.

Catalogue issued from Art Catalogues's Museum of Contemporary Art premises. Vast offerings of art monographs and exhibition catalogues (1404 items). Near fine; pencil annotation to upper wrapper and spine a trifle sunned. More

64 pp. Large 4to (275 x 215 mm.), orig. pictorial wrappers, staple-bound. Toronto: 1997.

A rare Art Metropole catalogue, with the upper wrapper illustrated by Garry Kennedy. Presents an impressive range of artists’ books, multiples, audio recordings, videotapes, and exhibition catalogues.

In excellent condition. The previous owner has marked several listings with yellow highlighter.

❧ See “Art Metropole’s Publications and Events History with Related Ephemera, January 1971 – April 2006,“ on the National Gallery of Canada website. More

Pictorial wrappers designed by Buren & several black & white illus. Unpaginated. Large 4to (268 x 198 mm.), pictorial wrappers (spine sunned), staple-bound. [Toronto: 1983].

A rare catalogue published by Art Metropole, with wrappers designed by Daniel Buren. Art Metropole, founded in 1974 by General Idea, was the first large-scale distributor of artists’ books and publications in North America.

Very good copy, a trifle browned. Unrecorded on WorldCat. The previous owner has annotated a number of the entries in pen and red marker.

❧ See “Art Metropole’s Publications and Events History with Related Ephemera, January 1971 – April 2006,“ on... More

Many black & white text illus. [64] pp. Small 8vo (210 x 135 mm.), orig. pictorial wrappers (spine worn), staple-bound. Toronto: 1976.

Art Metropole’s very scarce third catalogue of books, periodicals, films, and videotapes. Two years before Printed Matter was established in New York, Art Metropole became the first large-scale distributor of artists’ publications in North America. The collective General Idea (AA Bronson, Felix Partz & Jorge Zontal), which had been working with printed matter since the creation of FILE in 1972, founded this artist-run space in 1974.

Expanding greatly on Art Metropole’s previous catalogues, which primarily featured North... More

Black & white illus. (some full-page). 47 pp. Large 4to (277 x 205 mm.), pictorial wrappers, staple-bound. [Toronto: 1977].

[with]:

—. [From upper wrapper]: Supplement to Catalogue No. 5, Editions by Artists. [10] pp. (incl. inside wrappers). 4to, pictorial wrappers, staple-bound. Toronto: 1978.

Two rare and early catalogues issued by Art Metropole, the first large-scale distributor of artists’ books and publications in North America; offered with the subsequent Supplement distributed in the summer and featuring artists’ editions. The first catalogue offers dozens of works by European artists such as Abramovic, Beuys, Boltanski, Broodthaers, Buren, Darboven, Dibbets, Ehrenberg, Filliou, Fulton, Graham, Rebecca... More

Unpaginated. 59 pp. & ads. Large 4to, orig. printed wrappers designed by Holzer, staple-bound. Toronto: 1989.

[bound with]:

—. [From first sheet]: Catalogue Update, December 1989. Eight stapled sheets, printed on both sides. Toronto: 1989.

All three parts constituting Art Metropole’s thirteenth mail-order catalogue, including the “Catalogue Update” and a laid-in sheet of new publications not found in either of the previous. The first catalogue was designed by the artist Jenny Holzer. In this publication, “Artists’ bookworks” are denoted, this time with a triangle. The catalogues presents an impressive and vast range of materials, including video and audio works.

Fine copy... More

Many illus. 77 pp. & ads. 4to, orig. pictorial wrappers, upper wrapper by C. Andre, staple-bound. New York: 1977.

A celebrated issue of the intrepid New York newsprint art magazine, which ran from 1973 to 1978. This issue was devoted to the subject of “artists’ books” and introduced many to the then embryonic concept. It opens with an “Idea Poll” that solicited responses to the relevance and potential of artists’ books. Responses from Acker, Baldessari, Carrion, Buren, Denes, Hoffberg, Huebler, Kaprow, Kostelanetz, LeWitt, Lippard, Nannucci, Piper, Schneemann, Steir, Tuttle, Weiner, are recorded. They project a mix of optimism and fatalism... More

Color illus. 71 pp. Tall 8vo, red printed softcover with flaps, title on spine. Morlanwelz, Belgium: Musée Royal de Mariemont, 2008.

Rare exhibition catalogue on artists’ books. The show was curated by Veronica Alarcon Ibanez and Pierre-Jean Foulon. Books by Broodthaers, Christian Dotrement, Jacques Louis Nyst, Jacques Lennep, Pierre Cordier, Anne Goy, Filliou, etc. were selected. Text in French and Spanish.

In excellent condition. We find just two copies in North America.

❧ A. Desjardin, The Book on Books on Artists Books (2nd ed.: 2013) 122. More